The Importance of Correct Punctuation

Take a break from the drudgery with some of these jokes, song parodies, anecdotes and assorted humor that has been
collected from friends & from websites across the Internet. This humor is light-hearted and sometimes slightly
offensive to the easily-offended, so you are forewarned. I have taken care to censor "humor" with reproductive
function innuendo and hateful
tirades, so it is all workplace-safe. I have also tried to warn of any links that will result in audio
clips so you can take appropriate precautions. Please send any potential candidates for this humor
page to the e-mail link above.

Engineers are notorious for, to put it
kindly, "creative" grammar. Misspellings, improper capitalization (or no capitalization), misplaced commas,
semicolons and quotation marks, using adjectives where adverbs belong, etc. As with the examples of sentences you
see where all the vowels are removed and you can still comprehend the meaning, most texts written by engineers are
understandable in spite of the grammatical atrocities that have been committed. Well, here is one brilliant
example of where punctuation completely alters the meaning of the paragraph.The words in the two
paragraphs are exactly the same; only the punctuation and capitalization has been changed.

Dear John:

I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are
generous, kind, thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me
for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we're apart. I can be forever happy--will you
let me be yours?

Gloria

Dear John:

I want a man who knows what love is.
All about you are generous, kind, thoughtful people, who are not like you. Admit to being useless and inferior.
You have ruined me. For other men, I yearn. For you, I have no feelings whatsoever. When we're apart, I can be
forever happy. Will you let me be?